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TIL In recorded history, the deadliest tropical cyclone (over 300,000 killed in 1970) and the deadliest tornado (1,300 killed in 1989) both occurred in the country of Bangladesh

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xAX1 TIL Nestle’s enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don’t have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they’re actually using.
ADA0B TIL of "The Game of the Century" where 13 year old Bobby Fischer went up against previous US Open Champion and ended up winning by sacrificing his queen
LQD4r TIL the official who oversaw the construction of the Bastille, Hugues Aubriot, was also one of the first people to be imprisoned within it. He was accused of heresy after arresting people who had harassed the city's Jewish population
9YY8Q TIL English has at least 38 different ways to spell the vowel sound in "say". For example <eigh> (eight), <alf> (halfpenny) <au> (gauge) etc.
M1gK TIL The firemen that went up on Chernobyl’s roof almost instantly received a fatal radiation dose when they looked down into the reactor to extinguish the flames. A scientist later observed their hoses dangling above the reactor, the firemen not there anymore. None were ever seen again.